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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
 Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj has been released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay and is being flown to Sudan, according to sources. Al-Hajj's family is expected to greet him when he lands in the capital Khartoum late on Thursday. Once he arrives, al-Hajj will undergo a series of medical checks. Despite holding a legitimate visa to work for Al Jazeera's Arabic channel in Afghanistan, he was handed to the US military in January 2002 and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Al-Hajj, who is originally from Sudan, was held as an "enemy combatant" without ever facing a trial or charges. "Al-Hajj is remarkably thin, he has been on hunger strike and forcibly fed through his nose while being strapped down, twice a day, for 16 months," a lawyer from the Reprieve organisation said. Be first to comment this article
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
 The ripples of the March 25th Basra offensive-turned-fiasco initiated by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have been transformed into waves of bloodletting, crashing rhythmically northward onto Sadr City. According to one governmental official, more than 900 people were killed and 2600 wounded in the teeming slum of three million in April. For the past month, Sadr City has been effectively sealed off from the rest of Baghdad as United States and Iraqi forces attempt to crush Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army. In an ostensible effort to quell the launch of rockets from the neighborhood into the Green Zone, recent days have seen an intensification in fighting and causalities. Of all the unmitigated disasters the occupation of Iraq has wrought and of all the comparisons made to other foreign misadventures, the U.S. siege of Sadr City and its unfortunate similarity to the Israeli siege of Gaza is certainly one of the most damning.Comments (11) |
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
 The United Nations should hold Washington accountable for improperly holding thousands of detainees in Iraq, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday, charging that the detentions flout international standards. In a letter to members of the UN Security Council, HRW said detentions by the US-led Multi-National Force, which often find Iraqis detained without charge and for unlimited periods, need far more rigorous scrutiny. The rights watchdog also expressed concerns about allegations of widespread torture of detainees by Iraqi authorities. HRW called on Washington to allow the UN mission, as well as independent Iraqi and international human rights observers, to visit its detention facilities and report their findings.Be first to comment this article |
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
 Ali Al-Mawlawi, a twenty-four year old British Iraqi student, managed to raise almost £5000 for deprived children and young people in the UK and Iraq by running the Flora London Marathon on Sunday. Completing the race in 5 hours 29 minutes and 10 seconds, Ali generated funds to support the work of the Ansar Youth Project, who provide activities, mentors and support to deprived young people in the UK; and the Seyyed Hussein Ismail Sadr Foundation Trust, which runs orphanages, education schemes and promotes dialogue between sections of the community in Baghdad, Iraq. In this exclusive interview, Ali shares his motivations and the experience of one of the most challenging times in his life.
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
 The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq. "It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," he said at a Pentagon news conference. In a speech Monday at West Point, Gates said Iran "is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons." He said a war with Iran would be "disastrous on a number of levels. But the military option must be kept on the table given the destabilizing policies of the regime and the risks inherent in a future Iranian nuclear threat."Be first to comment this article |
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
 A senior Iraqi health official has said that the US military has been utilizing internationally prohibited weapons against the Iraqi people in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City. Ale Yassin, the member of the Committee on Health and Environment in the Iraqi parliament said that the occupying troops use internationally prohibited weapons during raids on Sadr City. She said that forensic medicine investigations proved that the occupying troops used banned bombs in the recent raids on Sadr City which killed a number of people and injured several others. Sheikh Salah al-Obaidi, a senior member of Sadr group strongly denounced the US crimes and massacres against the people of the city.Be first to comment this article |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday criticised the U.S. for not giving the nuclear watchdog information on what Washington said was a nuclear reactor in Syria being built secretly by North Korea. IAEA Director-General Mohamed El Baradei also criticised Israel for bombing the site seven months ago, in a statement that reflected his anger at being kept out of the picture for so long. “The Director-General views the unilateral use of force by Israel as undermining the due process of verification, which is at the heart of the non-proliferation regime.”Be first to comment this article |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
 The UN humanitarian agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, has been forced to shut down its food distribution in Gaza because a promised shipment of fuel from Israel has not arrived. The agency warned yesterday that it is running out of gasoline for its trucks that deliver aid to 650,000 residents of Gaza. The Deputy Commissioner General for UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, told UN Radio, that the agency has been in this situation of uncertainty many times this year, because of the Israeli closure of crossings into Gaza. Mr. Grandi says the only real solution to the energy crisis is to reopen the crossings to allow in people, goods and services into Gaza. Anything else, he says, is just a band-aid.Comments (2) |
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